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Marine insurance

Insurance cover for your business

Overview

Marine insurance

Insurance cover for your business

Towergate Insurance has built up many years of experience,
providing protection to the Marine industry, with customers ranging
from small hauliers to large retailers with complicated supply
chains. As one of the UK’s leading insurance intermediaries and
with strong insurer relationships, we have the buying power which
can help negotiate the most appropriate insurance cover for our
clients.

From single shipments to annual cargo policies, our expert team
work together with clients to identify risks and provide the best
solutions.

We pride ourselves on giving a personal service and provide
highly competitive solutions, call us on 0330 123 2039 to find out
further information or request a quote.

Our Covers Include

Marine Cargo Insurance

Carriers such as shipping lines and airlines only provide
limited liability in the event of a loss or damage to goods based
on weight related compensation. Our policies provide cover for all
risks of physical loss of damage to goods for items in transit by
sea, air, rail or road. Cover can also be provided for UK and
overseas warehousing and distribution by means of a Stock
Throughput policy.

Marine Cargo Declaration Insurance

Towergate Insurance are able to provide freight forwarders with
an online facility to insure customer’s goods shipment by shipment.
With instant certificates and no annual premium charge, this is an
important service offering for freight forwarders.

Freight Liability Insurance

With carriers and logistics operators being faced with ever more
burdensome contractual terms being imposed on them by their larger,
more demanding customers freight liability insurance is an
important cover.

Our specialist underwriters help to ensure that road hauliers,
freight forwarders and warehouse keepers get the right level of
freight liability insurance cover, and our claims team actively
defend claims and pursue subcontractors, to ensure that the
policyholder’s position is properly protected and to keep renewal
premiums down by protecting loss ratios.

Warehousekeepers Liability Insurance

Warehouse owners are exposed to the risk of fire, flood, theft
and damage of third-party owned materials stored in their
facilities. Towergate Insurance is able to provide cover liability
protection in the event of a loss to your customer’s goods.

Hauliers Liability Insurance

Hauliers insurance policies protect you from any loss or damage
to goods that you are transporting. Cover is provided in accordance
with standard trading conditions or under the Convention Relative
au Contract de Transport International de Marchandises par Route
(CMR). Along with insurer partners, we are confident that we can
provide higher levels of cover at competitive premiums.

Specialist Transit & Exhibition Insurance

Towergate are also able to provide insurance cover for “one off”
specialist shipments which can include fine art, furniture &
antiques. Or you may require cover for an exhibition, whether the
subject is fragile or robust, important or inherently valuable our
policies can provide specialist cover needed. This might be for one
day or a month long exhibition. Transit to and from venue or
storage facility via road, air and sea can be included on a
worldwide basis.